I can see arguments both ways on whether or not this belongs in this forum. As I started reading this part I was feeling too much of "this is A Smallville story, not an L&C one" but I firmly remninded myself that not only Smallville or the elseworld "Last Family of Krypton" did this, but Secret Origin and the Superboy comics of the Silver Age as well, so there's plenty if AU backups to that concept that it doesn't necessaeily have to be taken as a Smallville addition.

Personally I didn't mind the exposition too much. Maybe it was because the first part was so completely bare of details and ths fills in the much needed gaps. From a storytelling viewpoint I'd say that it is a much better story now than before.

CLARK: No. I'm just worried I'm a jinx.
JONATHAN: A jinx?
CLARK: Yeah. Let's face it, ever since she's known me, Lois's been kidnapped, frozen, pushed off buildings, almost stabbed, poisoned, buried alive and who knows what else, and it's all because of me.
-"Contact" (You're not her jinx, you're her blessing.)